Edward Charles Titchmarsh

Professor Ted Titchmarsh
Born Edward Charles Titchmarch
1 June 1899
Newbury, Berkshire, England
Died 18 January 1963 (aged 63)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Nationality British
Institutions University of Oxford
Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford
Academic advisors G. H. Hardy[1]
Doctoral students Lionel Cooper[1]
Known for Brun–Titchmarsh theorem
Titchmarsh convolution theorem
Titchmarsh theorem (on the Hilbert transform)
Titchmarsh–Kodaira formula
Notable awards De Morgan Medal (1953)
Sylvester Medal
Senior Berwick Prize (1956)
Fellow of the Royal Society[2]

Edward Charles "Ted" Titchmarsh (June 1, 1899 – January 18, 1963) was a leading British mathematician.[2][1][3]

Education

Titchmarsh was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield) and Balliol College, Oxford, where he began his studies in October 1917.

Career

Titchmarsh was known for work in analytic number theory, Fourier analysis and other parts of mathematical analysis. He wrote several classic books in these areas; his book on the Riemann zeta-function was reissued in an edition edited by Roger Heath-Brown.

Titchmarsh was Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1932 to 1963.

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Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Edward Charles Titchmarsh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Cartwright, M. L. (1964). "Edward Charles Titchmarsh 1899-1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 10: 305–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1964.0018.
  3. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Edward Charles Titchmarsh", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.